SF News Homeless Woman Addresses Letter To DPW, SFPD As They Clear Her Encampment In a sweep of homeless encampments described by the Coalition on Homelessness, the Department of Public Works and the SFPD cleared 30 tents near San Bruno Avenue and Alameda Street on Sunday morning
SF News SF Homeowners Could See Bills In Wake Of Storm Because Of Tree Maintenance Rules Heavy winds and rain that reportedly brought down more than 350 trees in San Francisco arrived months too early for some homeowners, who will likely have to foot the bill for tree removals.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Adorable 67-Year-Old DPW Worker Suu Ngo Talks About Supporting Grandkids, Loving Her Work As part of their video series "The Regulars," the Chron's videographer Erin Brethauer made this fantastic portrait of 67-year-old Sunset district street cleaner Suu Ngo, who immigrated here from Vietnam in 1985 as
SF News Bronze Disc Marking SF's Geographic Center Immediately Stolen A photo posted by @peternocturnal on Jun 9, 2016 at 6:13pm PDT "The center could not hold," the above Instagrammer captions this shot perhaps channelling Yeats by way of Didion but I
SF News City Surveyors Mark Actual Geographic Center Of SF, Sort Of In recent days, because apparently they don't have enough to do, the city's Department of Public Works installed a small brass disc marker on a sidewalk on Corbett Avenue, the 700 block, on
SF News Report Cites Fewer Needles On Sidwalks, But Complaints About Them Rise Anyway A report evaluating 184 routes through San Francisco between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2015 shared with the Examiner shows more streets free from debris and detritus "which pose the greatest risk
SF News Raised Bike Lanes Arrive On Market Street Finally, after first hearing about the plan three years ago to add raised "cycle tracks" along Market Street, the Department of Public Works began construction on them today, with the first to arrive
SF News Hooray! Those Pee-Deflecting Walls Are Working! The walls in San Francisco mean business. Or, more accurately, they mean "don't do your business here." That's after a new, fast-moving pilot program to paint walls with liquid-repellant paint which is already
Arts & Entertainment War Brewing In Castro Between Party Promoters, Merchants, And City Workers Over Ripping Down Posters Lampposts and street poles in the Castro have long been plastered with images of half-naked men and drag queens on posters promoting gay events in and around the neighborhood. There's good reason for
SF News In San Francisco, The Walls Pee On You Testing out a new pee repellent that "pees back" to prevent public urination. pic.twitter.com/6eDJ4w9MWH— SF Public Works (@sfpublicworks) July 23, 2015 It was a lightning-fast move, given that we're talking
SF News Dirty Streets Require Potable Water For City Cleaning, Are Still So So Gross San Francisco, California, the City by the Bay where thousands of gallons of drinking water are poured onto the streets and you totally can't tell. “We have to use potable water for steam
SF News 600-Unit Residential Building Slated For Van Ness And Market The third "under-developed" corner of Van Ness and Market, a city-owned office building at 30 Van Ness that's currently home to a Walgreen's and the Department of Public Works, is now slated to
SF News New Pee-Repellent Wall Paint To Soak The Shoes Of Public Urinators Soon, walls in San Francisco could start fighting back against public urination. The Chronicle reports that Mohammed Nuru, who heads the city's Department of Public Works, is pursuing a path so far only
SF News Scott Wiener Has A Plan To Take Care Of Falling Street Trees You know all those notices that have been plastic-wrapped to trees all over town informing adjacent homeowners that responsibility for the maintenance of street trees next to their property is being transferred to
SF News New Feces Map Helps City Launch Mobile Toilet Brigade In Tenderloin The Chronicle simply loves to cover the poop beat. After giving us a bunch of handy street-feces statistics back in May, they're back today with a new human-feces map of the Tenderloin that
SF News New Raised 'Cycle Tracks' Proposed for Market Street DPW has put $42 million toward a repaving and redesign of Market Street over the next four years, and among the proposals is a new separated track for bicycles that hasn't yet been
SF News Flash Pillow Fighters to Pay $35,000? See, this is why a brick fight would've worked so much better. The Department of Public Works is fuming after the clean-0up cost for this year's annual flash pillow night at Justin Herman
